Comment on Why do some Americans "feel ashamed" for being American even when it's not their fault?
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 19 hours agoi hate when people shit on the US but don’t acknowledge any sort of solutions to put in their own country to avoid this situation
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
The easiest solutions to the US problem are already solved in most other western countries. That’s why the US is the first (and at this time, the only one) that turned fascist.
Legal guns are uniquely a US problem. Having a system that only allows 2 political parties is a uniquely US problem. Limitless (in the billions!) political donations is a uniquely US problem. Relying on the stock market for retirement is a uniquely US problem.
I’m not saying that the rest of the western countries turning fascist is impossible, but it’s much harder. Most fascists are contained to their fascist political party. So until there aren’t enough fascist individuals, they can be mostly ignored. Of course, once they are enough fascists, the fascist party will inevitably win, and there’s nothing that can stop them at that point.
QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
A multi party system over time (decades or centuries even) turns to 2 parties, then turns to one.
I agree on the guns tho
calcopiritus@lemmy.world 55 minutes ago
That only happens in the US because of first past the post system. In European countries new parties with significant vote share are created all the time.
In fact, in my country the opposite of what you say happened. First we had a dictatorship with a single party. Then democracy came and we had a 2 party system. No we have 4 major parties, in addition to some minor ones.